Novelty box and wagon



Feb. 9 ,1926. 1,572,141

H. HILDEBRANDT ET AL NOVELTY BOX AND WAGON Filed Dec. 18, 1924 INVENTOR [5 Eownno HILDEBR/PNDT v 1.0 H/l. DBRAINDT ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 9, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NOVELTY BOX AND WAGON.

Application filed December 18, 1924. Serial No. 756,727.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, IIAROLD I-IILDE- BRANDT and EDWARD Hither-annular, citizens of the United States, and residents of Tacoma, Pierce County, \"Vashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Novelty Boxes and Wagons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a novelty box and wagon, and has for its principal object to provide a box in which confections, cookies, crackers, or like articles, may be sold and which, after being emptied, may be used as a toy wagon.

It is also an object of the ih vention to pro vide a box of the above character having ports provided at directly opposite points in its side walls for receiving a supporting axle and a port in the front wall for the attachinent of a tongue whereby the wagon may be drawn.

A still further object resides in the pro vision of an axle comprising two separable sections on which the wheels are permanently mounted and to so construct the said wheels and axle sections that they are adapted to be disposed within the filled box without interfering with the goods therein and also adapted to be assembled in the side wall ports for the support of the wagon box after the box has been emptied.

Another object resides in the provision of a tongue and in the manner of disposing of it within the box and also in the manner in which it is functionally applied thereto.

In accomplishing these and other objects of the invention, we have provided the improved details of construction, the preferred forms of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a novelty box and wagon embodying the present invention, illustrating the disposition of the wheels and tongue for shipping.

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional View of the box particularly illustrating the disposition of the wheels when they are packed with the contents of the box.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the box and parts assembled to form the wagon.

Figure 4 is a perspective View of the two sections of the axle with the wheels thereon, shown in disconnected relation.

Referring more in detail to the drawings- 1 designates a box. preferably formed of sheet metal, and of rectangular form, comprising opposite side walls 2 and 3, opposite end walls 4 and. 5, a bottom wall 6 and a cover 7 that has a peripl'ieral down turned flange 8 adapted to overlie the top edges of the side and end walls.

Provided in the opposite side walls, near one end and adjacent the bottom, .are ports 9 and 10 for receiving an axle, as will presently be disclosed, and formed in the front end wall is a port 11 in which a stiff wire tongue 12, for drawing the wagon, is attached.

The axle comprises two sections 13 and 14 with wheels 15 fixed to. their outer ends. These two axle sections are adapted to-be projected through the ports 9 and 10 and to be joined togetherat their inner ends by the projection of the end of section- 14: into the section'13 which for this purpose is of tubular form and receives the other piece in a friction tight connection. 7

The tongue 12 consists of a single piece of wire with a.loop 17 at its outer end and a hook 18 at its other end adapted to seat within the opening 11, as shown in Figure 3.

When the box is packed with cookies, or the like, the wheel and tongue parts are assembled therein by disconnecting the axle sections and projecting them downwardly between rows of cookies, as shown in Fig ures 1 and 2, with the wheels resting on the top of the upper rows of cookies. The tongue hook 18 is then unseated from port 11 and pushed inwardly as shown in Figure 1. as far as it will go and the outer portion is then bent upwardly and held in this po sition by the end flange 8 of the cover section.

Then the contents of the box has been used up, or removed, the tongue 12 may be withdrawn and straightened out and the hook 18 seated in port 18. The two axle sections may then be applied by projecting them into ports 9 and 10 and joined together attheir inner ends to provide a substantial, wheeled support.

Such devices may be made in various sizes and shapes and as such provide not only a container in which goods may be sold, but

also provide a novel toy wagon verydesirable by children.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

A box of the character described having openings in its opposite side Walls for receiving a Wheeled supporting axle therethrough, and having an opening in itsfront Wall, a cover for the box having a peripheral flange overlapping the Walls, and a tongue extended through said front Wall opening having means at its inner end adapted for disconneotable attachment with the Wall when extended; said tongue also having 2r loop at its outer end adapted, by bending the 10 tongue upwardly, to be tucked beneath a flange of the cover to retain the tongue with in the box for the purpose set forth.

Signed at Tacoma, Pierce County, ashingt-on, this 22nd day of November 1924.

EDVARD HILDEBRANDT. HAROLD HILDEBRANDT. 

